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- catalog abstract ""Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805) is best known for four of her novels: Lettres neuchateloises, Lettres de Mistriss Henley, Lettres ecrites de Lausanne, and Caliste. These finely drawn representations of provincial courtship, marriage, and domestic life have been called the closest thing in French to the novels of Jane Austen." "A daughter of a distinguished Dutch noble family, she was known in her youth as Belle de Zuylen. At the age of twenty she began a clandestine correspondence with a middle-aged Swiss colonel stationed in Holland. David-Louis, Baron de Constant d'Hermenches, was a friend of Voltaire, an accomplished musician, an amateur writer, and a ladies' man. Their correspondence was one of the finest in a great age of letter writing. It lasted fifteen years, and nearly all of it is extant." "Although the two rarely saw each other, their epistolary friendship became one of great depth and scope. Their correspondence touches on a wide range of subjects; James Boswell's courtship of Isabelle, her opinions of English high society, the new smallpox inoculation, and visits by royalty. It includes firsthand accounts of the French conquest of Corsica and of Voltaire's social activism. Readers acquainted with Charriere's novels will see in these letters the same finely observed detail, epistolary style, and moral and intellectual awareness."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11508353.
- catalog contributor b11508354.
- catalog contributor b11508355.
- catalog contributor b11508356.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""A daughter of a distinguished Dutch noble family, she was known in her youth as Belle de Zuylen. At the age of twenty she began a clandestine correspondence with a middle-aged Swiss colonel stationed in Holland. David-Louis, Baron de Constant d'Hermenches, was a friend of Voltaire, an accomplished musician, an amateur writer, and a ladies' man. Their correspondence was one of the finest in a great age of letter writing. It lasted fifteen years, and nearly all of it is extant."".
- catalog description ""Although the two rarely saw each other, their epistolary friendship became one of great depth and scope. Their correspondence touches on a wide range of subjects; James Boswell's courtship of Isabelle, her opinions of English high society, the new smallpox inoculation, and visits by royalty. It includes firsthand accounts of the French conquest of Corsica and of Voltaire's social activism. Readers acquainted with Charriere's novels will see in these letters the same finely observed detail, epistolary style, and moral and intellectual awareness."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805) is best known for four of her novels: Lettres neuchateloises, Lettres de Mistriss Henley, Lettres ecrites de Lausanne, and Caliste. These finely drawn representations of provincial courtship, marriage, and domestic life have been called the closest thing in French to the novels of Jane Austen."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xxxiii, 549 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "There are no letters like yours.".
- catalog identifier "0803217145 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "There are no letters like yours.".
- catalog isPartOf "European women writers series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog relation "There are no letters like yours.".
- catalog subject "848/.509 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Swiss 18th century Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Charrière, Isabelle de, 1740-1805 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Constant de Rebecque, David-Louis-Constant de, 1722-1785 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "PQ1963.C55 Z484 2000".
- catalog title "There are no letters like yours : the correspondence of Isabelle de Charrière and Constant d'Hermenches / Isabelle de Charrière ; translated and with an introduction and annotations by Janet Whatley and Malcolm Whatley.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".